From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jan 20 7:29:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B425C37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 07:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05175; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:29:00 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f0KFT0n07584; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:29:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:28:59 -0500 (EST) To: Ralph Schreyer Cc: , Jan Conrad Subject: Re: Enlightenment does not run on a DIGITAL 433au In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14953.44278.25966.321508@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ralph Schreyer writes: > Hello, > > We have installed 4.2 RELEASE on our 433au and up to now everything works > fine. The compilation of enlightenment-0.16.5 went through without any > problems, but if we start enlightenment, nothing happens, aside from the > fact that the box starts swapping very heavily. The output of 'top' gives <...> Make sure that when you compile it, the compiler is using "-O" as its optimization flag. Not -O2 or -O4 or anything like that. And make sure there is a '-O' there. Gcc on alpha is buggy and we've found that using anything other than -O can result in subtle bugs in gcc-compiled binaries. > yields that big sizes for XF86_SVGA, even if enlightenment is not there. > Of course 12305M can't be true, but (aside from enlightenment) the system > works fine. Any experiences in this direction? This is a red herring. XFree86 memory maps large regions of discontigous device memory your machine's PCI bus. This is not physical memory, so you needn't be concerned with it. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message